What Does the Bible Say About Pride? Why God Resists the Proud and Gives Grace to the Humble
Drive past a wheat field in late August, just before harvest, and look closely at the heads of grain. The ones that filled out well[…]
Learning Contentment: What the Bible Says About Being Content in Every Season
Out in farm country, you’ll often find an old rain barrel sitting under the corner of a barn roof. In a wet spring it runs[…]
Tried, Trusting, and Triumphant: Finding Hope in Christ When Life Is Hard
TL;DR — Hope in Christ when life is hard is not the absence of pressure but the presence of a treasure: the light of the[…]
Why Does God Feel Silent? What the Bible Says About Unanswered Prayer
There is a stretch of every spring when a farmer has nothing at all to show for his work. He put the seed in the[…]
Presumptuous Sins: Presuming on God and Assuming About Others
Key takeaways: A presumptuous sin is deliberate, eyes-open sin committed with confidence that God will let it slide — whether by presuming on His grace[…]
A Root of Bitterness: What Hebrews 12:15 Says About the Thing Growing Underneath
Key takeaways: Hebrews 12:15 warns of a “root of bitterness” — hidden, growing resentment planted by a real offense that, left unchecked, springs up to[…]
Set a Watch Before My Mouth: What the Bible Says About Taming the Tongue
Key takeaways: James 3 teaches that the tongue, though small, directs the whole life like a bit directs a horse or a rudder steers a[…]
Not Forsaking the Assembling: What Hebrews 10:25 Says to the Tired Believer
Key takeaways: Hebrews 10:25 commands believers not to forsake assembling together — not as a rule about attendance, but as a call to consider one[…]
Cast Thy Bread Upon the Waters: Sowing for a Harvest You May Never See
Key takeaways: Ecclesiastes 11:1 commands us to ‘cast thy bread upon the waters’ — to send out something valuable (provision, labor, the gospel) without demanding[…]
The Race Is Not to the Swift: What Ecclesiastes 9:11 Says About Time, Chance, and Your Best-Laid Plans
Key takeaways: Ecclesiastes 9:11 observes that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong — because ‘time and chance happeneth[…]